I did it, I did it! Finally I finished my first downloadable mandala coloring book. It’s been in production for a long time (mostly due to life distractions and my perennial lack of focus). But it’s here! I proudly present:

Layering your colors is another way to express your artistic eye when coloring a mandala.

Layer your colors, one on top of another, to attain depth and dimension. Layering is merely adding one color on top of another color over and over again. Use as many colors as you wish.

Start out by stroking your first color lightly. Heavy pressure at the beginning builds a waxy surface that will resist further applications. Layering is a simple matter of lightly applying one color after another, and takes some patience. Try cross hatching, which is stroking your color first in one direction and then going back over the same area stroking the opposite direction. The key really is to build up the colors slowly to get the blend you prefer.

You will be able to finally blend colors by using a lighter color to press down heavily on top of your layered colors,. You can also purchase special colorless blending pencils, which help to bring out the vibrancy and depth of colors. Practice your blending on a separate piece of paper if you are unsure of your outcome.

Experiment and most importantly, have fun! Also remember, if the tools you’re using are mediocre the results will be less satisfying. I recommend watercolor pencils for their bright colors and greater versatility. Try
Prismacolor Colored Pencils available from Dick Blick.

1. When my husband and I are talking about our finances. This one I figured out by accident. Usually these sorts of conversations drive me crazy, particularly if we don’t see eye to eye. But if I am coloring while we talk, I find it much easier to listen and relax. Therefore, it’s also much easier to find the right words to express my own opinions.

2. While watching TV with my son. Now those who use mandalas for meditative purposes may shudder at this one, but I find it works for me. His selection of TV shows is not always that interesting for me, but that’s not my point in being there. I want to have the opportunity to interact with him and be aware of what’s going into that brain of his. Having a mandala to color gives me something to do that I enjoy, and yet I can still be available for those moments of laughter at silly characters and conversation over concepts he doesn’t understand. And I can remind him that with TIVO, he can fast forward through the commercials.

3. When I’m having business conversations on the phone. This was another accidental discovery. Not only did I find that it helped me relax (I’m not big on these kinds of phone calls, particularly with people I don’t know very well) but I was better able to focus. And later, when I looked at the design I had been coloring, I found I remembered more details in the conversation.

Mandala Designer

Now you can create your own personal Mandala art with the Mandala Designer kits.

Each kit comes with its own theme; Romantic, Classic, and Nature and can be used together or separately to create a personalized Mandala for you.

Each kit includes paper, tracing pen and pencil, set of six colored pencils, Mandala tracing wheel, and a frame to hold the paper and the wheel. All you might need to do to supplement these kits would be to add more colored pencil colors, an eraser and a pencil sharpener, but those are optional.

There are endless options in each kit to create different and unique Mandala designs. Great for ages 6 to adult.

What is a mandala starter kit? It’s a set of tools to help you draw beautiful mandalas… even if you’ve never drawn a mandala before. You don’t need to already know how to draw. You don’t need artistic talent. You don’t need to struggle with a collection of instruments like compasses, straight-edges, stencils, or curve rulers.

Now You Can Make Beautiful Mandalas. All you need is a desire to draw mandalas, some paper and pens or pencils, and the Personal Mandala Starter Kit.

You need to find or draw a large, flawless circle within an even square.

You need to think of things to draw in it.

You need to try to figure out what makes a mandala.

You need to visually size up the elements.

You have to guess at where things should go.

And you have to juggle a lot of drawing tools at the same time.

On this site we often give tips and tricks for how to draw mandalas with the simplest tools, and it can be done. The thing is, even with professional drawing tools, sometimes it’s not easy to get things to look right. Even experienced artists find it difficult to draw a mandala with such things.

And you still face what may be the biggest obstacle, which no other tool can help you with… What To Draw!

The Personal Mandala Starter Kit, however, has been created especially with all these needs in mind. It offers you easier tools than you can buy anywhere else, because they’re all integrated into the pages you print off. And perhaps even more important, it gives you over 200 ideas of things to draw.

The best part is, you can use these tools over and over again. They can’t break, wear out, or get lost. So in this one book, you get a lifetime’s worth of mandalas to draw. So is there anything the Personal Mandala Starter Kit doesn’t provide? Only one thing: it is waiting for your touch to bring the mandalas to life.

Spiritual Mandala Templates E-Book – FREE

And as a bonus gift, you will receive the Spiritual Mandala Templates E-Book to download, absolutely free! Spiritual Mandala E-book Cover Here are 56 (fifty-six!) Mandala Templates based on ancient symbols from spiritual traditions from around the world and throughout history. So not only will you have the many “mundane” mandala templates to play with, you can expand your mandala meditation by starting with these spiritual symbols, including . . .

Crosses,

Star of David,

Pentacles,

Yin-Yang (Taijitu),

Om,

Buddhist Wheel of Dharma,

Hecate’s Wheel,

Fatima’s Hand,

Eye of Bridgid (Eye of God)

and more.

Click below to get it at the special introductory price, available for a very limited time.

Mandalas can and have been created with about every artistic medium you could imagine, but in this article we focus on the colored pencil.

Colored pencils are good for people who want to have a very controlled expression whereas markers, paint and oil pastels are suitable for those who want to make a bold statement. If you are exploring the world of mandala coloring pages and coloring books, colored pencils are hard to beat. I prefer using colored pencils for coloring mandalas because:

they can be erased if you make a mistake

they are much more precise, making detail easier to handle

colors are easily layered and blended

the colors don’t bleed like markers

Which Brand to Choose?

Finding the best colored pencil for your mandala coloring can sometimes be puzzling. Different brands vary in quality, color vibrancy and durability. Lets take a look.

Colored pencils are pigmented pencils which use a wax-based pigment mixture for ‘lead’. Student grade colored pencils (such as Crayola, Rose Art, Prang, etc) are very different from artist quality pencils. They have very little pigment in the wax binder, and so the colors they lay down are very diffuse in comparison.

Watercolor pencils are very much like colored pencils and can be used just like colored pencils except their ‘lead’ is water-soluble. Watercolor pencils are more versatile than regular colored pencils. You have the option of creating colored pencil effects or, by brushing on water, watercolor painting effects.

Artist brands are more highly pigmented, which means a little goes a long ways. They are easier to use, easier to manipulate and easier to blend and mix. I do find it is more difficult to erase them, so you will want to be sure and experiment with different types of artists’ erasers to find what works best with your pencil and paper selections. always has a great selection. and Derwent Coloursoft are the very softest wax-based colored pencils. Lyra Rembrandt are oil-based, there’s oil as well as wax in the binder, and they have a slippery oil feeling that’s a lot like painting.

Prismacolor Premier fine art water colored pencils are my favorite because they have thick, soft leads that are made from brilliant pigments. These Soft, thick cores create a smooth color lay down for superior blending and shading. It is a little tougher to get and keep a fine sharp point, and you have somewhat more lead breakage because the lead is softer, but the brilliant colors make it worth the effort for me.